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On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> * Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
>
>    This is a really fat problem.

Who needs this functionality?

Is it some legacy of passwd(5) compatibility, such as the wish to have 
colons in Windows login names?

Does the move to AD/SAM eliminate the original need, so that you 
actually have *two* reasons to stop paying the runtime expense?

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